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James Mackintosh

ARTICLES BY JAMES MACKINTOSH

Silver and gold prices spiraled downward Friday in their worst day in decades.

An investor’s guide to the boom (and bust) in gold and silver

4 min read . 02 Feb 2026

The New York Stock Exchange. Investors who held on to U.S. stocks all year made good money.

In a wild year for markets, investors who did nothing did just fine

4 min read . 29 Dec 2025

The U.K. government in its latest budget ignored its promises to go for growth.

Is America heading for a debt crisis? Look abroad for answers

5 min read . 30 Nov 2025

The core of the AI debate is whether all the spending on chips and research will eventually lead to big enough profits to justify the huge outlays. (Bloomberg)

AI investors want more making it and less faking it

3 min read . 23 Nov 2025

Quarterly profits have soared at Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft as AI-related revenue poured in (Meta’s were wiped out by tax). (Getty Images via AFP)

Big Tech’s soaring profits have an ugly underside: OpenAI’s losses

4 min read . 13 Nov 2025

Gold is meant to be the ultimate safe asset to protect from the follies of the government and banks. Amid follies aplenty, gold has doubled in the past two years. (Pixabay)

Can gold keep rising? Depends if you think this time is different

4 min read . 18 Oct 2025

Microsoft is sitting on $95 billion in cash and has only $40 billion of long-term debt. (File Photo: Reuters)

Why Microsoft has lower borrowing costs than the US

4 min read . 29 Sept 2025

U.S.-listed companies have been required to report results quarterly for decades.

All the reasons Trump would be wrong to ditch quarterly earnings

4 min read . 19 Sept 2025

But as in 1964, investors are taking on a lot more of the single-stock risk that diversification is meant to shield against. (Bloomberg)

The market’s riskier than it used to be—and investors love it

4 min read . 14 Sept 2025

Markets aren’t concerned in part because Trump seems to back down from extreme moves when markets sell off. (Getty Images via AFP)

Five reasons the market doesn’t care about Trump firing Lisa Cook

3 min read . 28 Aug 2025

(Illustration: Rachel Mendelson/WSJ, iStock)

Why the latest meme stock craze won’t take down the overall market

4 min read . 01 Aug 2025

The More Trump Pressures the Fed, the Less Likely He Gets Lower Rates

The more Trump pressures the Fed, the less likely he gets lower rates

5 min read . 25 Jul 2025

If you just want to make money, the coal miners or oil producers will be worth buying at some price. (REUTERS)

There’s more information than ever on ESG investing, but it isn’t helping

3 min read . 08 Jul 2025

The simplest answer is the rise of the so-called Magnificent Seven, part of a dominance of new technology by the U.S. that swept the world.

It’s a scary world, but investing abroad has new attractions

4 min read . 15 Jun 2025

Mixed US economic data puzzles investors: soft surveys are weak, but hard spending remains strong. (Image: AFP)

Why the US economy will muddle through Trump’s tariffs. Probably.

3 min read . 01 Jun 2025

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was at a news conference in Geneva on Monday. (AFP)

What the US-China trade agreement means for markets

2 min read . 12 May 2025

Markets may be restraining Trump’s wildest policies—but investors shouldn’t get too comfortable. (Image: AP)

Markets think they hold all the cards over Trump

3 min read . 24 Apr 2025

Americans have long imported more than they export. (Bloomberg)

Who will pay the price for Trump’s economic goals?

5 min read . 20 Apr 2025

Investors flee U.S. assets amid tariff fears, debt unwinds, and fading confidence in America. (Image: Reuters)

Will the last investor to leave America please turn out the lights

4 min read . 13 Apr 2025

Safe assets became particularly risky when yields reached zero, or in some cases went negative.

The dumbest investment in the world was better than owning safe treasurys

5 min read . 23 Mar 2025